TITLE: Excuse Me...Are You a Witch?
PUBLISHER: Siphano Picture Books, 2002GENRE: Children's Fiction
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MY GRADE: A
SYNOPSIS: Herbert doesn't have a home. He doesn't have any friends, and when the weather's bad life is pretty unpleasant. Except for the library -- it's always warm, and there are lots of good books to read. But you can't live at the library! Then, while reading one day, Herbert learns that witches love pets -- especially black cats! Now all Herbert has to do is find a witch .
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MY GRADE: A
SYNOPSIS: Herbert doesn't have a home. He doesn't have any friends, and when the weather's bad life is pretty unpleasant. Except for the library -- it's always warm, and there are lots of good books to read. But you can't live at the library! Then, while reading one day, Herbert learns that witches love pets -- especially black cats! Now all Herbert has to do is find a witch .
MY THOUGHTS: This is sweet. It's a 32-page full color children's book about a lonely, homeless black cat named Herbert. He wanders into a library and reads a book called The Encyclopedia of Witches. He learns that witches love black cats most of all. He sets off to find one. He wanders around town, thinking he's spotted one over and over again, only to find out the people aren't witches. He visits the library again and finds a group of "witch-schoolgirls" inside. They love him on sight and invite him to go to school with him.
My favorite image is below, where they're leaving the library with him.
TITLE: ROOM ON A BROOM
PUBLISHER: Puffin, 2001READ FREE: link
MY GRADE: A+
SYNOPSIS: The witch and her cat are happily flying through the sky on a broomstick when the wind picks up and blows away the witch's hat, then her bow, and then her wand! Luckily, three helpful animals find the missing items, and all they want in return is a ride on the broom. But is there room on the broom for so many friends? And when disaster strikes, will they be able to save the witch from a hungry dragon?
MY THOUGHTS: I love this. It's 36-pages, full color with rhyming verses. Being a children's book, it paints the witch in a good light. She and her cat help out a dog, bird, and frog, having misadventures along with way. All four help her out of a horrible situation with a dragon at the end and she gets rewarded with a special broom.
Someone did an animated television movie for this but it's not the 2012 version (the illustrations are identical to those in the book and this version is only 10:19 long) and all the voices are done by the same woman. They changed the word "fries" to "chips." The BBC version that was put onto DVD has different animation and a different person narrates each character.
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